CURRENT building regulations are “not fit for purpose” and leave too much room for people to cut corners, a review into fire safety in the wake of Grenfell has said.

In the interim report Dame Judith Hackitt has called for a “change in culture” within the construction industry to put safety ahead of cutting costs.

“The mindset of doing things as cheaply as possible and passing on responsibility for problems and shortcomings of others must stop,” she wrote in the foreword of the Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety report.